Ref previous message, my father's Whitley was Z6874 call-sign P for Peter, shot
down by coastal defence anti-aircraft fire over Calais on 24-10-41. By chance
my father was in the rear turret as they had a new W/Op on board - the W/Op was
killed by the shell explosion, my father and the rest of the crew survived by
parachute and were POWs until the end of the war. According to my father, he
saw the aircraft fly on in flames out towards the English Channel.
Regards
Phil Pinney